Ballycrystal
Townland in the civil parish of Templeshanbo, barony of Scarawalsh, Co. Wexford; in Irish Baile Chriostail
- Area
- 719.1 ha
- 1,777 acres
- Land parcels
- 82
- registered freehold, median 15,063 m² (1.51 ha, 3.72 acres)
- Zoning
- —
- not in a zoned settlement
- Planning
- 17
- applications since 2010
Land parcels
Registered freehold land, Tailte Éireann
82 registered freehold parcels lie mostly in Ballycrystal, from 593 m² to 761,411 m² (76.14 ha, 188.15 acres). The dashed line is the townland's boundary; 21 neighbouring parcels touch it.
Download the townland: DXF, in Irish Transverse Mercator metres, with its boundary, parcels and buildings; GeoJSON or KML.
Zoning
Development plans, national zoning
No zone of a development plan covers Ballycrystal in the national zoning. Outside zoned towns and villages, the county development plan's rural policies apply to each application.
Source: Tailte Éireann and the Department of Housing (MyPlan), national zoning, CC BY 4.0.
Planning applications
Sites that touch the townland, newest first
20 Jun 2025N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, car port and garage wit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250762
5 Jun 2025N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, car port and garage wit
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20250670
9 May 2025N/a
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house, car port and garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20250534
15 Nov 2023N/a
Permission for retention of existing stables with ancillary services
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231371
31 Oct 2023N/a
Permission for retention of existing stables with ancillary services
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20231310
9 May 2023N/a
Permission for retention of existing stables with ancillary services, including
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230500
5 May 2023N/a
Permission for retention for development
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20230480
7 Jun 2022Granted (conditional)
Permission to erect a dwelling house with services and domestic garage
Permission, 2 homes · Wexford County Council, 20220762
25 Feb 2022Refused
Permission for alterations to previously granted planning application (Planning
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20220241
18 Mar 2021Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house & garage with associated
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210379
4 Feb 2021Refused
Permission for alterations to previously granted planning application (Planning
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20210144
3 Mar 2020Granted (conditional)
Permission to construct a fully serviced dwelling house and garage with associat
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20200259
11 Nov 2019N/a
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE WITH ASSOCIATED SITE WOR
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20191506
7 Aug 2018Granted (conditional)
PLANNING PERMISSION FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF A SINGLE STOREY DWELLING, GARAGE,
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20181080
28 Jun 2018Granted (conditional)
RETENTION PLANNING PERMISSION FOR EXISTING AGRICULTURAL SHED WITH ALL ASSOCIATE
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20180878
14 Aug 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CONSTRUCT A FULLY SERVICED DWELLING HOUSE & GARAGE WITH ASSOCIATED
Permission, 1 home · Wexford County Council, 20171076
2 May 2017Granted (conditional)
PERMISSION TO CHANGE SITE BOUNDARIES GRANTED UNDER PREVIOUS PLANNING REG.
Retention · Wexford County Council, 20170540
Source: National Planning Applications, Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Applicants are not shown.
Nature and heritage
Designated sites and recorded monuments
Designated sites
- Special Area of Conservation: Blackstairs Mountains SAC 000770
- Proposed Natural Heritage Area: Blackstairs Mountains 000770
Recorded monuments
- WX014-003 Enclosure
Description
Marked faintly as the outline of an oval enclosure (dims c. 60m E-W; c. 45m N-S) on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Situated towards the top of the W-facing slope of a small N-S spur in the foothills of the Blackstairs Mountains. No feature is visible at ground level in pasture. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 26 April, 2012
- WX014-005 Ringfort - unclassified
Description
Situated on a NW-SE ridge with NW-SE streams c. 350m to the E and c. 400m to the W. Marked as circular enclosure (diam. c. 35-40m) just N of Ballycrystal House on the 1839 ed. of the OS 6-inch map. Nothing is visible at ground level. Archaeological testing (07E0050) conducted within 50m S-W failed to produce any related material (McLoughlin 2010) The abpve description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Wexford' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1996). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload/revision: 26 April, 2012
Architectural heritage
- Ballycrystal Bridge, bridge, 1800–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Single-arch road bridge over river, extant 1839. Creeper- or ivy-covered walls with overgrown coping to parapets. Single segmental arch between creeper- or ivy-covered battered piers with lichen-spotted granite ashlar voussoirs. Sited spanning Urrin River with unkempt banks to river.
- Ballycrystal House, gates/railings/walls, 1700–1839 · Regional interest
Description
Gateway, extant 1839, on a symmetrical plan comprising pair of granite ashlar piers on chamfered plinths having "Cyma Recta" or "Cyma Reversa" cornices below ball finial-topped capping supporting wrought iron double gates. Lane fronted at entrance to grounds of Ballycrystal House.
Designated sites: National Parks and Wildlife Service. Recorded monuments: Sites and Monuments Record, National Monuments Service. Buildings: National Inventory of Architectural Heritage. Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, CC BY 4.0. Works at or in relation to a recorded monument need two months' written notice to the National Monuments Service (National Monuments (Amendment) Act 1994, section 12).
Ground and risks
Radon, landslides, flooding
- Radon
- About 1 in 10 homes in this area is likely to have high radon levels. Testing a home
- Landslides
- Susceptibility high, moderately high, moderately low, low, low (inferred), on the 1:50,000 map.
- Terrain model
- No LiDAR survey of the Office of Public Works covers the centre of the townland of Ballycrystal.
- Flooding
- The flood maps of the Office of Public Works: floodinfo.ie.
Radon Risk Map of Ireland, Environmental Protection Agency; Landslide Susceptibility Classification, Geological Survey Ireland; both CC BY 4.0. LiDAR: contains Irish Public Sector Data (Geological Survey Ireland & the Office of Public Works) licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) licence.
Homes sold
Property Price Register
- Ballycrystal, Bunclody6 sales
The townland
- Name
- Ballycrystal · Baile Chriostail
- Area
- 7,191,277 m² (719.13 ha, 1,777 acres)
- Civil parish
- Templeshanbo, and its townlands
- Barony
- Scarawalsh
- Electoral division
- Rossard, the unit of the census
- Census 2022
- Rossard electoral division: 524 people in 171 households; 88% of households own their home; 39% of homes were built since 2001; 6% of dwellings stood vacant on census night, and 1% were holiday homes.
- Neighbouring townlands
- Bola More, Boladurragh, Cloroge Beg, Cloroge More, Craan, Crannagh (Co. Carlow), Kilbrannish South (Co. Carlow), Raheendarragh (Co. Carlow), Rathanna (Co. Carlow), Wheelagower
- Placenames
- Ballycrystal on logainm.ie, the Placenames Database of Ireland
Townlands, civil parishes, baronies and electoral divisions, National Statutory Boundaries, Tailte Éireann, CC BY 4.0. Census 2022, Small Area Population Statistics by electoral division, Central Statistics Office, CC BY 4.0. A townland is the smallest land division of Ireland, and the unit of a rural address; old registers such as the 1901 and 1911 censuses file it under its civil parish and barony.